Christmas Celebrations in London

Leonie Cooper: While I regret that the New Year’s Eve fireworks have had to be cancelled, I commend you for taking this decision early on and agree wholeheartedly that the event could not safely take place during a pandemic. Will we see the cancellation of other events such as Bonfire Night and the turning on of Christmas lights across major high streets in London?

The Mayor: There is no new GLA funding for this campaign.
The £280,000 funding allocated to London & Partners for their industry-led Domestic Tourism Consortium campaign in 2020-21, which had to be halted as a result of the covid-19 pandemic, was reallocated to the “Because I’m a Londoner” campaign.
No further funding to the “Because I’m a Londoner” campaign has been committed.